1. Norway’s energy story
Three policy cases and the reasoning
behind them

2. Case overview
• Smart metering (Demo Steinkjer)
• Buildings (Myhrerenga BRL)
• Transport (Nobil)
• SMEs (Finnfjord)

3. Case I: Smart metering
• Pilot for smart meter rollout
– 700 households initially, 4500
projected. 66 SMEs
• Smart meters allow for supplier control of
“low priority consumption such as hot water
heating and underfloor heating cables”
• Hourly billing and increased monitoring will be
provided to customers.

4. Smart metering
• Rationale: “The ultimate aim of the demo is
that after ten years Steinkjer will have a
community of active, aware and adaptable
energy customers.”
• This is how they will be
activated and adapted:

5. Time series analysis

6. Reasoning
• Consumers unsure what to do with it
• Suppliers very keen
• National roll-out in 2017

7. Case II: Building retrofits
• Retrofitting of a housing cooperative outside
Oslo to passive house standard
• 168 households in seven buildings, from 1967
– Two types: single bedroom and two-bedroom

8. Retrofits
• Result of complaints about draft, poor indoor
climate and high electricity bills
• Thicker insulation, heat pumps, new water
heaters, 44 solar heaters
• Projected yearly consumption change: 300 to
80 kWh/m2

9. Notables
• Initiated by inhabitants themselves
– Resourceful and active (not like the people of
Steinkjer?)
• Supported by willing agency
– Works only for experimental projects?
• Relies on willingness to large outlay with long
payback time

10. Case III: EVs
• Nobil, an online database of all charging
stations for EVs nationwide (currently more
than 4000), provides real-time information on
their status
• Combines GPS data with an online API, for
both web and mobile

13. Norway and EVs
• World’s largest EV fleet in relation to
population
• Very favourable incentive structures
– Tax breaks, use of car pool lanes, free parking
• Stated goal of increasing EV adoption

14. How is this efficiency?
• Facilitation for large EV fleets
– Urban environments (taxis)
– Car pools
• Centralisation of emissions